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Drew Steele, who hosted the early morning show Daybreak from 2012 to 2016, is returning to the slot, said Casey Bartholomew, program director for the station, WFSX.

Radel hosted Daybreak for several years before resigning in 2012 to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. He won the seat and served about a year before resigning in the wake of a scandal that stemmed from his arrest in Washington, D.C. on cocaine possession charges.

He took back the morning talk show a year ago, after company executives said Steele resigned. Since then, Steele has been a host for KSL radio in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Friends in #swfl Monday, I start a new radio show on 92.5, The Drive 5p-7p. Excited to continue bringing an irreverent fun view on politics! pic.twitter.com/vCUuY1qWZi

Bartholomew said the new lineup gives the station more local programming. “We wanted to better serve the market and what better way than with two live, local shows,” he said. “And Trey was more than happy to not have to get up (in the early morning),” Bartholomew said.

The changes take effect Monday.

The new lineup will have Steele and Daybreak from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and nationally syndicated hosts Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh in their usual 9 a.m. to noon and noon to 3 p.m. slots. Sean Hannity’s syndicated show, which had been from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., will be split into two segments, live from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. with the third hour on tape from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Radel and The Drive will fill the 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. slot.

At 8 p.m. the station will air the final hour live of Mark Levin’s syndicated show, which presently runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Another hour of Levin, on tape, will run from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

At 10 p.m. the three-hour syndicated show America Now will air with a new host, Buck Sexton, a former CIA officer turned conservative radio commentator.

Bartholomew said the syndicated hosts understand when their shows are rearranged to accommodate local programming. “The national shows realize that our prime motivation is to serve the local community,” he said.